In the aftermath of "VIP Taxpayers List" scandal the Tax Authority is to implement a set of data protection measures that will end up costing €5 million by 2017.
In an astounding admission of poor practice and outmoded systems, half of this sum is for a ‘computerised method of monitor workers’ access to data,’ which most assumed existed, until the VIP Taxpayers' List scandal erupted.
Brazil’s president, Dilma Rousseff, has seen her popularity dip to a new low with just 10% of voters approving of her government.
Brazilians who rate her administration as “bad” or “very bad” went up to 65%, according to a Datafolha poll.
A maintenance worker attending to one of the military antennas near Sagres in the western Algarve has been crushed to death.
The 38-year-old worker was on the structure used for Air Force communications when the antenna buckled and the top section swung down, crushing the man who died at the scene.
Another coach has crashed, this time in the Alentejo near Almodôvar, Beja, at around 18.30 killing three passengers.
The Renex coach was taking passengers on its usual Algarve:Lisbon route and crashed killing three and injuring 17 including the driver, nine of them are in a serious condition.
Portugal’s food safety police have seized more than 12,000 kilos of honey illegally imported from China.
ASAE today announced the discovery in a warehouse in Seia, Guarda and calculated that there were 12,600 kilos of honey marked as being from Spain but in fact originating from China.
Rosário Teixeira is quite certain that the money José Sócrates was splashing around Pairs was the proceeds of corruption as even the credit card used to go on a shopping spree the day before his arrest was in the name of Sócrates' friend, Carlos Santos Silva.
Operation Marquis involves the state prosecutor delving into the links between former PM José Sócrates and his very rich friend Carlos Santos Silva whose bank accounts, it is claimed, harboured millions owed to Sócrates in bent payments for favours extended when he was Portugal’s prime minister.
TAP is to suspend seven medium-haul routes. The measure is part of the company's adjustment plan to reduce costs on under-performing winter routes.
The service to Oviedo (Spain), Gothenburg (Sweden), Helsinki (Finland), Warsaw (Poland) and Zagreb (Croatia) will be suspended as will links to Tallinn (Estonia) and St. Petersburg (Russia).
The Central Court in Lisbon sentenced two men each to ten years in prison for trying to import 660 kilos of cocaine hidden on a yacht.
The pair had started their doomed voyage from the Caribbean where one of them bought the 13 metre yacht from a Spaniard living in the Dominican Republic: they also bought a shipment of cocaine.
